WARNING: References to the introduction to "Zero Wing" will be made. You know what you doing.

In relation to one of my other threads (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=351214), I discovered my second NIC didn't show in $(ifconfig -a). And I'm all like "what happen ?" and "you are on the way to destruction."

So, what do I do, knowing that I know very little of hardware, Linux (the kernel) and drivers? The obvious move is to post in Linux - Hardware.

As I've done that before, I know the sticky suggests listing $(lspci) and $(uname -r). Somewhere, between re-reading the sticky and actually posting, my brain must have thawed.

I actually *read* the output of lspci. By doing so, I determine the brand and model of my second NIC (all I had to go on before that was the "level one" etched into the NIC `front panel' (where the LEDs are, too)).

So, I google on 'Realtek 8139 Linux 2.6.8' and similar, finding that a few people have had some issues, and that a few other people have worked them out using 8139too.

So, of course, I lsmod | grep 8139. Nothing. Hmm...

Okay, so I man modprobe (I didn't really know what it was doing) and modprobe -l *8139*. That one finds 8139(cp|too).ko. Allright, so I echo 8139too >> etc/modules, shutdown -r now, and tada...

$(ifconfig -a): eth0 eth1 lo sit0. It's there. I put in my cable, get a dhcp lease, and voila, "we get signal" (yoohoo).

In the process, I managed to learn a bit about the kernel: if the module isn't loaded, the answer is probably `no'. And I learned how to search for loaded modules (lsmod) and available modules (modprobe -l), load modules (modprobe 8139too), and make sure they're always loaded (/etc/modules).

Until next time, may all yuor base belong to us.

--Jonas

Cool beans Glad to hear you got it fixed.

Hi man, let us check our spelling:
"references to the introduction of "zero wing""
"you know what you're doing"
"I know little ABOUT hardware"
"rereading the sticky and actual posts"

I will try to make a better correction !

(note: emphasis added in the following)
you're right wrt. to `of' (... `Zero Wing') and `about' (... `hardware'). Thanks for correcting me. Your `actual posts' is also correct, but that's not what I meant; s/Somewhere/Sometime/ (beginning of sentence) might better express my point. Go on, reread the sentence--I'll wait.

Then, your mistakes: you're not correcting my spelling, but my grammar.

`Zero Wing' is a proper noun, and should be capitalized.

`You know what you doing' is a reference to (well, actually a quote from) the introduction of `Zero Wing', and thus should be gramatically incorrect (see http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/story.shtml), in order to be a correct quotation. You apparently understand this principle wrt. `all yuor base' (which is a genuine spelling error) and `what happen ?' (a grammatical error), among others, so I'm surprised you claim that this is an error on my part.

Yes, please make better corrections in the future :P

--Jonas